(Guest post by A Mental)

I must apologise for this first introduction as not only are there my normal levels of confusion to deal with, but I have also taken my sleepers, which add all sorts of exciting confusion such as voices and people running around fast etc etc. So this may actually make no sense at all. And it may well be long. I waffle. Writing in a succinct manner is not a skill I have ever mastered – my A level English Lit teacher told me so.

Anyway, as you may (or may not) have guessed from my name, I am not an RMN (does the term ‘Mental Nurse’ make anyone else chortle by the way? Mental Health Nurse or Psychiatric Nurse I could understand, but Mental Nurse?? I can just imagine 2 nurses talking ‘So what sort of nurse are you?’ (asks RMN) ‘Oh, I am a Children’s Nurse, I work with children. What about you? Our imaginary RMN replies ‘I am a Mental Nurse. I work with mentals. Does anyone see my point regarding the slightly odd terminology there used in the titles? Or is it just the Zolpidem that makes me find it amusing? Anyway, enough chortling, back to the point, the point’………………………………. Ah yes, the point is I am not an RMN, or any other nursy type, or anyone professionally involved in mental health. I am a patient (refuse to be client - seems linked to prostitution) under MH services, and have been since I was 17, and am now 23 (or will be in a week). I swear this had a point, I haven’t a bloody clue what it was anymore though. So anyway, I just registered my name as ‘a mental’ since we have already established RMNs treat mentals, and there is only one of me, hence the lack of s in my name. Wonderful, you have had to endure a blog about my name. It really was about something else, I promise.

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